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Travis Boone Pearce, 30, appeared for arraignment in Dickinson County Circuit Court on Monday with his attorney Dan Anderson of Iron Mountain.

Anderson said his client would enter a not guilty plea to the charges of operating/maintaining laboratory involving methamphetamine, attempted delivery/manufacture of methamphetamine/ecstasy, and habitual offender, fourth offense notice.

According to the felony complaint, police were contacted by Dickinson County Memorial Hospital in reference to the defendant being treated for injuries suffered in a chemical explosion. Evidence at the scene of the explosion, 724 N. Kimberly Ave., determined a meth lab had failed.

Pearce was treated at a Milwaukee burn center for treatment of third degree burns.

Investigation also revealed that the defendant allegedly purchased pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) at Walmart less than two hours earlier and a tube cutter (used to cut open lithium batteries) at Home Depot shortly after that. Sudafed and a tube cutter along with other known ingredients used to make meth were recovered from the scene.

Judge Richard Celello set a pre-trial conference for March 4 at 10 a.m.